Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-28
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IRE straight backed and hard as rocks. l.
hey could use their wigs for cushions Il
would be more to the point according to nv
notions. The chief justice was rugged out in
what looked like red flannel night shirt
though don't reckon it was, and the lawyers
addressed him as ''me lud." ] thought as
looked at them of the Wayback court
house, where the attorneys set in the
bar in arm chairs, put their feet
on the table, and made a target of the
spittoon by the clerks desk, and l felt as
homesick as could be. And English law is
about as slow as it is old fogy. My friend told
me that an English lawyer was the worst in
the business He got admitted without know
ing any law, and he never tried to learn
afterward. ,
Some of them, he said, were naturally
smart, and couldn't help but get ahead, but
they got almighty stuck up about it,
and it was as hard to get them to work at
case as it was to make man, working by
the day, do as much as one working by the
Job. He had paid barrister 5000 to present his
case, and when the case came on the barrister
| was out of town, and he had to hire a solicitor
| and run the case himself He gave, as the
| best evidence Of their inefficiency, the fact
| that American lawyers. who have come to
London, have made money hand over fist. OF
course, we all know how Judah P. Benjamin
made his mark there. tE
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| Every day am here I feel to rejoice that
am an American citizen, and am just as
likely to be the first man in the nation as any
other man is and am therefore entitled to
equal respect with all others. I notice
here that whenever the band plays "God
Save the Queen" lots Of men take off their
hats and stand bareheaded, as il they was in
the sanctuary. / don't object to God saving
the queen, for she needs it as much as any
other sinner; but don't stand bareheaded to
the sentiment, even if she is a woman. l seen
her the other day, riding out to open the
Peoples palace, and I'll put Mandy alongside
of her any day in the week, and bet a months
salary and perquisites that Mandy will take
self on her good looks, neither. The queen is q
very nice sort Of woman, though. but
Mandy says that's nothing to her credit, for
a woman that asks praise for being a good,
respectable woman, even if she is a queen,
isn't right in her upper story.
had another case of practical interstate
commerce this week. +. P. Porter, the tariff
man, and Paul Wilcox, a New York lawyer,
| posted on these matters, undertook to take
me by the underground railroad from Shad-
well to Charing Cross, short haul, for four
pence. They got the wrong train and went
back the other way till they found out their
mistake. when they concluded to git out and
try to find their way by daylight The man
at the gate stopped US, however, and said it
would cost us four pence more to git out, be-
cause we had the wrong tickets. or course,
we objected, but he held on, and told us we
could go on around the entire city, about five
times as far as we had come, and get out at
Charing Cross, for what we had already paid.
1t was plain case d the short haul shipper
having to pay mileage for the long haul
,hipper.
I -.
The London police is great institution,
ana would give patriotic statesman q
nightly fine grip if there was politics in it,
'ut there amt any, and powerful force in
tate affairs is let go to waste There are
tbout 1900 Of them and they git from S. so
to $3.50 week, according to their time of
service. They amt mean about little things,
though, and if you offer one shilling YOU
needn't be afraid Of Citing arrested for pri-
oery. talked to one about his business and
low he got his appointment, and he told me
man had to have good charackter al
etters of recommendation from his last em.
ployer and also bis clergyman.
Think of that, Mr.. Editorl A policeman
getting recommend from the church he at
| tended!
Mandy and me have saw many permanent
sights, but l have not told your readers of
them, because these every day maj tiers that
you don't find in guide books seems to me to
be more important, and more according to
| our modern idees
Yours truly, w. Q. WAxEM.
| NJ. G. from " yback.